Hi,
Become root, navigate to /, enter rm -rf *.
Boom.
Every unix/linux admin. Has done a variation of this - usually only once!
As a MF guy that has dabbled in the dark side - Not as much as John McK! -
I always thought it would be fun to watch to do exactly that from z/OS unix and
watch the MVS syslog.
:-)
Happy Friday,
BobL
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2017 12:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Check out Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites [
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 11:19:52 -0600, John McKown wrote:
>
>> The outage was caused by a typo.
>
>Ah, yes. The UNIX community has the legend of the system administrator
>(aka "root") who meant to remove all single character files via "rm -f ?"
>who typed in "rm -f /" OOPS!
>
Can even superuser unlink a non-empty directory?
-- gil
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